Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 923da4405d825082…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

30.9 KB
MD5: e9bcbf7e51d187bd3825107e6b13510e SHA-1: 0768565d815f1d4892178a6c946e9d6ad05be20f SHA-256: 923da4405d825082d077bd967e81d08cc820966715a82d733912e93a4d0e0ab2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an RTF document that contains embedded OLE object data, specifically targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability. The presence of `RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR` and `RTF_OBJUPDATE` heuristics indicates that the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening, likely to achieve remote code execution. The `RTF_OBJDATA` heuristic further confirms the embedding of OLE objects, which is a common delivery mechanism for exploits.

Heuristics 3

  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • \objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATE
    RTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000016c3.bin
eab325bc0222e0cf1e9b3c03372c1506cd3ed356d1ea2fd36dd0afe5031fd823
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x16C3 1606 bytes